HomeMy WebLinkAboutKissiah Miller Proclamation_10.2017
P R O C L A M A T I O N
WHEREAS, Kissiah Miller was born a slave on October 15th 1794 in the State of Virginia
during the administration of the first President of the United States of America, George Washington;
and
WHEREAS, Kissiah Miller joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1830 and later
became a faithful member of Georgetown’s Wesley A.M.E., the City’s oldest African American
Christian Church, having been established in 1869; and
WHEREAS, Miller came to Texas as a slave in 1835 and during her lifetime lived through
the Independence of Texas, the Proclamation of Statehood, the Rebellion of the Confederacy and
finally returned under the Freedom of the United States as proclaimed to her on June 19th 1865;
and
WHEREAS, Kissiah Miller moved to Georgetown in 1880 to be near her son Benjamin Smith
and her grandchildren, where she lived a fruitful Christian life until her death June 30, 1892 at age
98; and
WHEREAS, Kissiah Miller was the mother of one of Georgetown’s most prominent African
American citizens, as evidenced by the significant markers for his mother and wife in the Old
Georgetown Cemetery that was platted out at the time the City of Georgeown was established in
1848 by George Washington Glasscock; and
WHEREAS, the Georgetown Wesley Chapel A.M.E. Church, in partnership with the City of
Georgetown Parks and Recreation Department, agrees to share responsibility in the preservation of
the Old Georgetown Cemetery, as well as all the former citizens of Georgetown; and
WHEREAS, the City of Georgetown is proud and honored to recognize Kissiah Miller as one
of Georgetown’s most historically significant citizens to be buried in the San Gabriel Cemetery,
commonly known as Old Georgetown Cemetery.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DALE ROSS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, do
hereby proclaim October 15, 2017, as
KISSIAH MILLER DAY